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2. Pigache - Wikipedia

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   The pigache is also known as the pigage, [6] pulley shoe, [7] [8] pulley toe, [1] or pulley-toe shoe. [9] Less often, Orderic Vitalis's terms of opprobrium are reworked into names: scorpion's tail or ram's horn shoe. [10] The name pigache is also sometimes also applied to earlier pointed Byzantine footwear from as early as the 5th century. [11]

3. Wedge (footwear) - Wikipedia

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   Light blue peeptoe wedge heels. Wedge boots, wedgies, or lifties are shoes and boots with a sole in the form of a wedge, such that one piece of material, normally rubber, serves as both the sole and the heel. This design dates back to ancient Greece. [1] Greek Actors used to wear these shoes to signify status.

4. Stiletto heel - Wikipedia

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   Old, unsold stocks of pointed-toe stilettos and contemporary efforts to replicate them (lacking the true stiletto heel because of changes in the way heels were by then being mass-produced) were sold in street fashion markets and became popular with punks and with other fashion "tribes" of the late 1970s until supplies of the inspirational ...

5. Pointed shoe - Wikipedia

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   Pointed or pointy shoe or shoes may refer to: Beatle boots, a variant of Chelsea boots worn in Britain and elsewhere from the 1950s to present; Calcei repandi, pointed shoes fashionable in ancient Etruscan culture; see Daily life of the Etruscans § Shoes; Ciocie, worn by Italian peasants since the medieval period

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7. Winklepicker - Wikipedia

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   The male shoes were lace-up Oxford style with a low heel and an exaggerated pointed toe. A Chelsea boot style (elastic-sided with a two-inch—later as much as two-and-one-half-inch—Cuban heels) was notably worn by the Beatles but although it had a pointed toe, was not considered to be a winklepicker. Winklepicker shoes were also worn by ...

8. Cowboy boot - Wikipedia

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   Some claim that the narrow pointed-toe design appeared in the early 1940s, [2] although it can be seen as early as 1914 (see photo of Lottie Briscoe at right). The "roper" style is a newer design with a short boot shaft that stops above the ankle but before the middle of the calf, with a very low and squared-off "roper" heel, shaped to the sole ...

9. Pointe shoe - Wikipedia

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   Nothing in pointe shoe design prevents a foot’s "slippage", in which, when en pointe, the dancer’s weight forces their foot down into the shoe until their big toe meets the end of the toe box. Measurements have shown that most of the dancer's weight en pointe is borne by the big toe(s) regardless of the length of the second toe.